Re: Hurd

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:58:17AM -0700, askwzh wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a FS fan in China. I am interested in GNU's software, and I am using
>  Debian GNU/Linux now--although I write this E-mail under Windows. And I
> also want
> to try  Debian GNU/Hurd. And I land on the homepage of GNU/Hurd and Debian's
> site to get more
> about
> it.
> 
> After that, I still have questions. I want to know the packages-list in
> detail of  Debian GNU/Hurd H4's four CDS ! Can you give me the URL of that
> information or in another way!

All packages you can find on Debian GNU/Linux will sooner or later be ported
to GNU/Hurd, with a few exceptions listed here:

http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian

Whenever you want to use a package that hasn't been compiled, you just need:

  apt-get -y install build-essential (once)
  apt-get -y build-dep package
  apt-get source -b package

and build it.

If compilation fails, you can fix the problem and send a patch :)

see http://www.vmlinux.org/twiki/bin/view/Hurd/BtsFiling

cheers,

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992


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